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#142
  • In the year 2000, artist Glenda León (Havana, 1976) left small frozen flowers inside ice cubes upon the tables of a bar.

  • Monumental sculptures of iconic New York buildings to emerge along the Park Avenue Malls in artist’s inaugural NYC public art exhibition

  • Over the course of art history, artists aligned with different trends have shown a fascination with maps.

  • On an unseasonably warm fall day in October, on a Friday afternoon, I am at Y Gallery, where I am to meet Alberto Borea (b. 1979, Lima, Peru) to tour his second solo exhibition in New York titled “Because of Construction.

  • I’ve been teaching, on and off, for about fifteen years, and frequenting art schools and university art departments as a visiting critic or the like for a good deal longer than that.

  • For one of his most recent works, entitled O levante (The Uprising), 2012 − the brute material for which is still in the process of being structured in order to provide it with a definitive format − Jonathas de Andrade organized the 1st Horse-drawn Cart Race in the center of Recife, where he lives.

  • The Future was ceaselessly

    Revisiting the paths followed by the speculative variability that has gradually shaped the ever-ongoing work of Julieta Aranda, I can anticipate that we would be lost in simplifications and end up misunderstanding her movement and her drive if we intended to inscribe this work into a moment, or tried to approach it as if it were an arrow that we could immobilize in the middle of its flight.

Museum Exhibitions

Mexico City’s Tamayo Museum inaugurated the exhibition “Juan Downey| A Communication Utopia”, curated by Julieta González.

Interview

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro: Guy, you have worked primarily as an art critic, but you have also curated several very important exhibitions. Many people think these two activities are somewhat incompatible, and there are few cases like yours. How do you approach this crossover, and what makes you decide to curate an exhibition rather than, say, writing an essay about the same artists?

Featured video

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996) 5 pieces in video by Felix Gonzalez, 1979

News

Laboratorio de arte Alameda, México.

The Project Five Variations of Phonic Circumstances and a Pause presented by Tania Candiani at Museo Arte Alameda, Mexico City, just received the Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Arts Category of The Prix Ars Electronica.

Adrián Villar Rojas: La inocencia de los animales (The innocence of animals) is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator-at-Large, MoMA.

Nest Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, provides the setting for the exhibition Universos paralelos (Parallel Universes), which gathers together six Peruvian artists under the curatorship of Caroline Briceño.

Reviews

Elsie del Río, Buenos Aires

In Urban Papers, José Luis Anzizar (Buenos Aires, 1962) continues his series Urban birdwatching, both visually and conceptually, marking itineraries and revealing movements which propose a reflection on the urban fabric and on perception.

Duque Arango, Medellín

In Aníbal Vallejo’s recent series of paintings, different references to the history of painting may be perceived, among them, references to Claude Monet’s

Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Chile

The Museum of Memory is a space devoted to the testimonies of thousands of victims of the period of dictatorial regime in Chile.


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